Explorers Sailing
PIER 40 SAN FRANCISCO
Students will be taught through a hands-on, multidisciplinary approach that enables small-group work to demonstrate how exploration tools, such as the magnetic compass and charts, are used and how ships navigate San Francisco Bay. Students help raise the sails aboard a scow schooner and steer under the watchful eye of the Captain and Crew.
Aquatic Park Science & Rowing Program
SAN FRANCISCO – Aquatic Park
Students explore the marine environment by conducting water-quality tests, analyzing data, and counting and identifying species along the rocky intertidal zone, while making connections to history in Aquatic Park. Students will learn to row together in a longboat to collect plankton samples. Our programs are tailored to the group’s size and needs, ensuring a personalized and engaging learning experience.
This program is written and provided in partnership with the Ocean Institute.
The AQP Science program meets the State Standards requirements for the Fifth through Seventh Grade curricula, including Ocean Literacy Principles.
Life on the Barbary Coast
MARE ISLAND VALLEJO, CA
Students explore maritime history by becoming “sailors” themselves. As they learn the language of the sea, the skills needed to row and maneuver cargo aboard the vessel, and the confidence and teamwork to raise one another from the deck in a Bosun’s chair, they become part of this history.
The Gold Rush
MARE ISLAND VALLEJO, CA
Fourth and fifth-grade students embark on an imaginary voyage aboard a historic ship at the mouth of the delta, the gateway to the gold fields. Pier-side students are immersed in an environmental living program that expands on their advanced research and invites them to explore the rugged era of the Gold Rush from a maritime perspective.